Stephen Breyer

Stephen Gerald Breyer (15 August 1938-) was an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court from 3 August 1994, succeeding Harry Blackmun.

Biography
Stephen Gerald Breyer was born in San Francisco, California in 1938. He clerked with US Supreme Court justice Arthur Goldberg in 1964, and he became a well known law professor and lecturer at Harvard Law School in 1967. Breyer specialized in administrative law, writing a number of influential textbooks. He also served as a special assistant to the US Attorney General for Antitrust, assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force in 1973, and serving on the First Circuit Court of Appeals from 1980 to 1994. In 1994, President Bill Clinton appointed Breyer to the US Supreme Court.